The conquest of the continent . population, and the land of theprairies and plains soon ceased to be the per-quisite of the cowboy, or the dreary pilgrimageof the traveller to the far west. Men rubbedtheir eyes as they saw new commonwealthsspring into being in a decade, and new states,carved out of the great wilderness, knockingat the door of the Union and proving not un-worthy to take their place beside New York,Massachusetts and Virginia. II What was the Church doing! Some begin-nings had early been made in this vast , , ,^ As far back as 1805, while Lewis What was the Church Doing?
The conquest of the continent . population, and the land of theprairies and plains soon ceased to be the per-quisite of the cowboy, or the dreary pilgrimageof the traveller to the far west. Men rubbedtheir eyes as they saw new commonwealthsspring into being in a decade, and new states,carved out of the great wilderness, knockingat the door of the Union and proving not un-worthy to take their place beside New York,Massachusetts and Virginia. II What was the Church doing! Some begin-nings had early been made in this vast , , ,^ As far back as 1805, while Lewis What was the Church Doing? ^j^d Clark were making their famousreconnoissance through the northwest, theChristian pioneer and Churchman, PhilanderChase, was establishing far to the south inNew Orleans the first congregation of ourChurch within the boundaries of the LouisianaTerritory—under the oversight of the Bishopof New York! Others had followed. Bishop Kemper hadbeen chosen for Missouri as well as Indiana,and had made his first home beyond the Mis-.
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